Vista Drive Icon

Author: Samer

Vista Drive Icon ScreenshotRating: 4.54.5 Star Rating

Version tested: 1.3

Description: Vista Drive Icon changes your Windows XP hard drive icons to icons resembling the icons in Windows Vista. It also installs a horizontal bar under each drive icon that shows the drive’s free space, similar to Vista.

Whether you have a bit of Vista envy or simply think this is a cool functionality to have, Vista Drive Icon deliver the goods. Not much more to say about this self explanatory software (the screenshot says it all), except that the cost of running it in memory is just under 3 megs (rahter small, although I would have thought it could have been smaller).

Want more Vista-like functionality for Windows XP? Check out Vista Visual Styles Pack, Shock Aero.

Compatibility: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP).

Go to the program page to get the latest version (approx 131K).

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9 Comments so far

  1. Fred Thompson on November 21st, 2007

    Yeah, 3megs for this? The author doesn’t know how to compile efficiently.

  2. Joshua on November 21st, 2007

    Indeed, 3megs for something like this is quite a lot. Then again, that’s what adds to the Vistaness, I guess.

  3. jsanderz on November 21st, 2007

    Thanks for the link I will give this app a try.
    Regards.

  4. raveren on November 21st, 2007

    http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5454&sid=449c6264f9c2528e617e840937ddc87e

    ^
    |
    the new and vastly improved version of this. Weighs 10x less, too :)

  5. radad on November 21st, 2007

    All the program does is update the drive icon setting in the registry. I wrote my own version using vbscript to do the same thing.

  6. Vista Drive Icon - Computer Forums on December 18th, 2007

    [...] Icon Vista Drive Icon changes your Windows XP hard drive icons to icons resembling the icons in [COLOR=blue! important][FONT='Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif][COLOR=blue! important][FON.... It also installs a horizontal bar under each drive icon that shows the drive’s free space, similar [...]

  7. krishnakoduri on January 3rd, 2008

    it`s better

  8. Anonymous on March 10th, 2008

    […] Icon Vista Drive Icon changes your Windows XP hard drive icons to icons resembling the icons in [COLOR=blue! important][FONT=’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif][COLOR=blue! important][FON…. It also installs a horizontal bar under each drive icon that shows the drive?s free space, similar […]

  9. Barry on April 22nd, 2008

    it is great

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